Dodging The Memory Hole is an action-oriented conference and event series that brings together journalists, technologists, and information specialists to strategize solutions for organizing and preserving born-digital news.
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A summary/recap of the Dodging the Memory Hole 2016 conference held at UCLA's Charles Young Research Library in Los Angeles, California over two days in October to discuss and highlight potential solutions to the issue of preserving born-digital news.
Some thoughts on creating conference lists, live tweeting and archiving events.
This is an important topic and something which should be tended to on an ongoing basis. Ben Welsh of the LA Times data desk has built Savemy.News which leverages Twitter in combination with archive.is, webcitation.org, and archive.org to allow journalists to quickly create multiple archives of their work by simply inputting the URLs of their…
I was excited to hear Dr. Meredith Broussard, a brilliant colleague I've met via the Dodging the Memory Hole series of conferences, on this podcast from The Atlantic. I would recommend this special episode (one of their very best) to just about anyone. In particular there's something to be gained in the people side of…
GitHub have published some guidance on persistence and archiving of repositories for academics https://help.github.com/articles/about-archiving-content-and-data-on-github/ #openscience
The crowd from Dodging the Memory Hole are sure to find this interesting!
Images from a conference at UCLA concerned with saving born digital news
Some quick thoughts and an archive of the audio and my Twitter notes during the day
Some quick thoughts and an archive of my Twitter notes during the day